eSRA in Cognos – An Overview Beta Release – February 1, 2016 Cynthia Sylvester May 17, 2016

How to Use Cognos for Reporting Information in today’s presentation is also included in a Quick Reference Sheet: eSRA and Cognos QR2013 on the eSRA website Refer to the Help tab in Cognos for information about how to use Cognos and Training environments The same help text is available in the A-Z Index C: Cognos Help & Training R: Reporting Portal (Cognos) Help & Training Need more help? Submit a help request using “Give us your Feedback” on the Cognos Help tab Submit a help request to FSMHelp@lbl.gov and indicate you are having problems with Cognos

How to find the eSRA Package in Cognos

What is included and not yet included? Included in the Self Service Query Studio – beta version eSRA data is updated nightly to the Data Warehouse Summary level information about proposals and awards Not included in the Self Service Query Studio – beta version We are scheduled to do an audit of fields included and missing in the next several months, in the meantime, submit help requests if you need something you can’t find Transactional level detail For example: Funding by project period or fiscal year Workflow to report on cycle times

Coming Soon . . . . . The eSRA team is developing a data dictionary for the eSRA Self Service module (ETA June) Cycle time reporting (ETA July) Adding additional fields to complete the summary package (ETA August) The Data Warehouse, Cognos, and eSRA teams continue to respond to input from end users